with Justin Phillips

Month: February 2017

I have been contacted by the owners that have inherited this little house in Denver to possibly sell it in the near future. It is a very small 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom ranch house located on the edge of the College View Neighborhood just south west of downtown Denver. There is a ton of potential in this house for whoever fixes it up and then re-sells it. Please subscribe to this blog and send me a message if you want to be kept in the loop about this one!

I get that a lot these days! Right now the amount of properties for sale in Littleton is at a crazy low level. According to the graph below, the amount of properties available has dropped 30% in the past 3 years! While there are still homes available, it is slim pickings! I have been able to get my clients under contract using a variety of strategies to make their offer package stand out from the rest. I also make sure to contact the listing agent so that I can establish a great line of communication to help alleviate any questions or concerns they may have about my clients.

Low amount of homes for sale

On another note, if you have been on the fence considering whether you should sell your home, now is definitely the time. Make sure you pair up with a broker that can find you a home before you list your house for sale, otherwise you might end up homeless with an agent that doesn’t really care. I’m sorry to tell you, but with 50,000 agents in Colorado, there are some agents out there that do not consider this job their passion like I do. I also just recently moved our family and so I have recent, first-hand experience on how difficult a move can be and what I can do to help things go as smoothly as possible! Check out this video below and then call me to help you!

What do you think you need to put down to purchase a house these days? 20%? 10%? On average people were putting down 11% in 2016 to purchase a home. That means that while several people did put down 20% or more, just as many people were putting down 5% or less! If the amount of down payment is holding you back, definitely talk to your lender about what programs are out there to help you qualify and get into a house now, so you can stop paying the mortgage for someone else!

Jonathan Smoke, realtor.com®’s chief economist writes in his latest column, “the millennial dreaming about homeownership needs to get this message: They need a FICO score of at least 639 and enough for a 5 percent down payment (that is, if they don’t qualify for the other programs with lower payment options). In that case, they’ll need to save about $3,500 to buy in the typical American town.”